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Expat Blog Awards 2013

Top 10 Ways To Survive As an Expat SAHM In the Netherlands

You're a SAHM. You're moving to the Netherlands from the US. How different will it be? I'm a mom of three boys: 3 year old twins and a 4 year old and have lived here just over a year. I don't work a paying job, I run our house and I am totally cool with that. Here are my top 10 tips for being an expat SAHM here in the...

Writing Contest March 2013

Top 25 Ways to Enjoy Amsterdam & it's Surrounding Cities

Come share Amsterdam with me – there is so much to see and love and spring is just around the corner. These are a few of my favorite things in no particular order. Take a canal boat ride and explore the 400 years of canals. The Blue Boat Company is my favorite: http://www.blueboat.nl/index_en.html Visit the House of Six – a...

Expat Blog Awards 2013

Top 5 aspects about The Netherlands from a European perspective

The majority of articles listing characteristics of life in the Netherlands are written from a mainly American or British point of view. But how do other Europeans perceive life in the Netherlands? What do they think about the food, the weather, the language, the Dutch modesty and the way of travelling in the Netherlands?I will list up 5...

Writing Contest March 2013

Top 5 What The. . . ??? Moments. . . Since Moving to The Netherlands

After moving our family to The Netherlands 14-months ago, there have been at least 18-handfuls of oh-my-I-don’t-know-if-I-can-do-this-moments. My husband and I moved excitedly and exhaustedly. Our two large dogs moved apprehensively. Our 21-month-old moved confusedly and our 3 month-old moved obliviously. But we arrived. We said...

Writing Contest March 2013

Top 8 Must Buy Items For Expats in The Netherlands

You can’t buy happiness but as an expat you can buy eight items that will help you get the most out of living in the Netherlands. A Bike There is no doubt whatsoever that the Dutch are cycling nuts. You could sum the locals up with “I cycle therefore I am” and if you want to mingle with the locals the first thing you need to do...

Expat Blog Awards 2013

Top Odd Sights in the North Netherlands

13+ slightly weird, definitely quirky, very off-the-beaten-tracks things to see in the North NetherlandsI should start this by pointing out that tourists almost never come to this part of the country (the provinces of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe) at all, unless you count Germans coming here to shop. Tourists generally stay in the West of...